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SAMYAGDARSAN (THE RIGHT-VIEW)
Everyone's Own Peep-hole -
A. G. Gardiner, the famous essayist, said, “Everyone looks at the world outside him through his own peep-hole”, this underlines the importance of having the right-view. In the presence of the right-view the things appear in their right perspective and in its absence even the right things appear to be wrong and vice versa. The Jaina thinkers have delved deep on the subject of having the right-view or the right-vision or the right-belief or the right-faith or the right-inclination or the rightattitude or the right perspective. So much so that they consider it to be the very basis of the faith at the very root of it when they say that the faith is founded on the (right) view itself (Damsaņa mūlao dhammo). Another view has it that those of corrupt conduct can correct themselves and liberate but those of corrupt vision cannot liberate. This chapter presents the essential features of the Right-View, as seen by the Jaina seers of yore and interpreted by the saints and scholars down the ages.
Darśan And Samyagdarśan -
Darśan is defined as an expression of a living being's capacity for discrimination or the way it perceives things. In its true sense it can be said to be the intuitive perception coupled with discretion. It has also been said to be the general view or conation of things
